A novel antibody-drug conjugate can drastically reduce the risk of progression in HER2-low breast cancer, new Phase 3 data presented at the European Society of Molecular Oncology (ESMO) Congress has ...

Daraxonrasib received a standing ovation at the ASCO 2026 Annual Meeting, Breakthrough Therapy and Orphan Drug designations from the FDA, and global attention for effectively doubling survival in ...

A frontline chemotherapy-free strategy using a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and immunotherapy beats the conventional chemotherapy approach for treating Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia ...

Brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris, Takeda) is now on the PBS as part of the multi-drug BrECADD chemotherapy regimen for front-line treatment in adult patients with advanced stage CD30+ Hodgkin lymphoma.

Acute ischaemic stroke patients with large-vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation presenting in the days after symptom onset can still clinically benefit from endovascular therapy, as can those ...

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia has applied for Medicare funding of kappa free-light chain (kFLC) index testing for diagnosing multiple sclerosis. The test was included in the revised ...

A Victorian coroner has called on the TGA to consider a ban on prescribing unapproved peptides after a 75-year-old man died from complications of a cardiac arrest after injecting the experimental ...

Internal medicine specialists remain among the highest paid professionals in Australia, although average earnings continue to vary widely depending on specialty and gender, new data from the ...

Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital has been named among the top 40 hospitals for cardiology in the world and the best in Australia. The World’s Best Specialised Hospital Ranking [link here] by ...

Watch again as an expert panel of VIC oncologists presents their selection of transformational clinical data in breast, lung, GI, GU and gynae cancer from the ESMO Congress 2025 and discusses the ...

Children who have frequent emergency department (ED) visits because of asthma may be able to avoid hospitalisation by using ‘burst therapy’ with high dose inhaled salbutamol at home, Victorian ...

Apixaban reduces bleeding in acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) by more than 50%, compared to rivaroxaban, data presented at the ISTH 2025 congress shows. Results from the COBRRA trial showed that 3% ...